How a Dying Woman Rewrote Her Epilogue

Elodie lowered her gaze in thought for a moment. "You don't need to worry. I'll find

a way to handle this. There are several people assisting me at work, and they'll all be questioned as well. Maybe something just went wrong somewhere along the line."

"Let's wait and see," Charlie said. "I'll reach out to Klein again and see if there's anything to clarify. Don't be afraid." He didn't know the details, but he trusted that Elodie wouldn't make a mistake.

Elodie nodded in agreement.

There were quite a few people on the team.

But the person who handled most of the important tasks with her was Lily Lockwood.

Everything Lily submitted, Elodie reviewed first.

Which meant the problem had to have occurred right before submission.

As for Lily, she was clearly less of a suspect. She had nothing to gain by tampering with the data, and Elodie had a personal relationship with Jarrod—a marriage in name, if not in spirit.

Besides, Elodie didn't believe Lily bore her any deep grudge that would make her risk everything to frame her.

After all, if Lily got caught, she'd lose all the hard-won opportunities she'd fought for.

When the call ended, Alexander finally turned to her. "So, what's your take on all this?"

At the moment, with Elodie under investigation, her work with Project 719 would be put on hold. She'd have to step away from the facility to ensure an impartial review of the situation.

Once she was suspended and off-site, she wouldn't have a chance to prove her innocence. She'd be left sitting on her hands, just waiting.

ideas, but nothing I can be sure of yet." Alexander considered this. "You think Jarrod

know

Jarrod's team. But the fact remained: Elodie had

protocols were strict; mistakes like this almost never slipped through. By all reasonable analysis, if there was a variable, it was likely on

between Elodie and Jarrod were tense-seriously

A man

and Elodie had a

cared about the

unfortunately, he blamed Elodie for “getting

as Jarrod could he

might have

the years, Alexander couldn't bring himself to fully trust Jarrod, not as her

almost immediately. "No. All

before submission, from

She understood Jarrod.

her, he wouldn't

direct brutal, even-but, net

need to

be that bold?" Alexander

"If it was sabotage, that

handling it better than

he admired her for

else to analyze. They'd have to

The car started up.

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